Re: Reliably finding the binary for an audio unit from a host
Re: Reliably finding the binary for an audio unit from a host
- Subject: Re: Reliably finding the binary for an audio unit from a host
- From: tahome izwah <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:38:26 +0200
True, but I'm not sure that there is anything else you could do, short
of looking for all bundles in both ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components
and /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and getting their IDs from
their Resources directory manually...
--th
2011/7/10 Stefan Gretscher <email@hidden>:
> Am 09.07.2011 um 10:45 schrieb tahome izwah:
>> That's quite easy, actually.
> Well, I wish it was, but the code you provided only identifies the bundle where the Cocoa view for a given Audio Unit lives.
> This may or may not be the same binary that the AU itself lives in, no assumption can be made about this.
> For example, when a plug-in supports both Audio Unit and VST API, it is a common design choice to create a bundle with
> shared code for both versions that is installed into the Application Support folder. The Cocoa view may likely live there too.
>
> Furthermore, your suggestion requires the Audio Unit to provide a Cocoa view, which it may opt not to do.
> Carbon/Cocoa discussions aside, many Audio Units that ship as part of Mac OS X don't provide any view at all.
>
> So thanks for the suggestion, but this is not reliable in the way I need it to be. My question still stands unanswered.
>
> -Stefan
>
>
>> Check out -showCocoaViewForAU in CAUHWindowController.m that comes
>> with the CocoaAUHost project. It shows you how to get the view factory
>> and the path to the bundle:
>>
>> AudioUnitCocoaViewInfo *cocoaViewInfo =
>> (AudioUnitCocoaViewInfo *)malloc(dataSize);
>> if(AudioUnitGetProperty( inAU,
>> kAudioUnitProperty_CocoaUI,
>> kAudioUnitScope_Global,
>> 0,
>> cocoaViewInfo,
>> &dataSize) == noErr) {
>> NSURL *CocoaViewBundlePath =
>> (NSURL*)cocoaViewInfo->mCocoaAUViewBundleLocation;
>> }
>>
>> HTH
>> --th
>>
>> 2011/7/7 Stefan Gretscher:
>>> Am 07.07.2011 um 08:59 schrieb tahome izwah:
>>>> - (NSString *)bundlePath gets you the path to the bundle, once you have identified it.
>>> Sure, but the question actually is how do I identify it in first place?
>>>
>>> -Stefan
>
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